Sherry | March 18, 2010
That’s quite a post title! You’ll understand in a minute. I’m about to share my March assignment. I figure why stop now? We’re two classes from the end and then I’ll stop inflicting my stories on you.
Don’t believe everything you read.
Weighing on what we learned from Betty Hockett’s instruction on writing our life story, we [...]
Sherry | March 9, 2010
Absent from pictures in my other posts from Denver—Taylor. That isn’t because he wasn’t there. He showed up for the Five Guys event, and he drove the 40-mile (+/-) round trip from his home to be part of the birthday celebration at Pei Wei. Yesterday Mauri and I visited him at his workplace. He knows [...]
Sherry | March 6, 2010
Yesterday we were crafty, today we’re sporty. Do we get credit for exercise if we spend our day moving ourselves from one grandkid sport to the next? First…
Bailey’s baseball practice (outdoors, you’ll notice). He’s the one with the gold bat.
Then we moved on to…
Addison’s basketball game. Her team won, with our granddaughter making half of [...]
Sherry | March 5, 2010
I’m not sure where Cassidy got the idea that I’m crafty, but whenever she hears I’m coming, she pulls her craft book off the shelf, pages through it, and bookmarks the one she wants me to make with her. I guess I could be remembered for worse things.
Actually I’m quite happy to make crafts with [...]
Sherry | March 4, 2010
Mauri and I flew to Denver early this morning for the the first of a five-day vacation. That’s right—vacation! Turns out March 4 is the big fundraiser for Babies of Juarez at Five Guys Burgers & Fries. Quinn did a good job of spreading the word, and at 11 when the store opened, people were [...]
Sherry | February 10, 2010
On February 10—not 14—we celebrate Valentine’s Day because it’s the day I asked you to marry me. Not in so many words, of course, since women aren’t supposed to propose. But it just slipped out; I hadn’t planned anything. We were just sitting there together on the couch in that tiny cabin by the ocean. [...]
Sherry | February 7, 2010
All birthdays are exciting and worthy of celebration. But a first birthday is extra exciting, don’tcha think? Grandson Oscar turned one today and ate the very first cupcake of his life. His parents had a birthday brunch planned, not only to celebrate Oscar’s first year but also to thank all the friends who have supported [...]
Sherry | January 31, 2010
circa 1977 • Baby Taylor gets ready to pull the pans out of the cupboard.
circa 2004 • Baby Cassidy—the same pans/lids offer entertainment.
circa 2009 • Baby Oscar investigates our 43-year-old cookware. Chances are another babe or two will play with these pans before they become obsolete.
Sherry | January 4, 2010
I was inspired to write a letter to my mother (who died in 1988) when I read Rebekah Schneiter’s blogpost about a woman who is encouraging people to write “the things you would have said.” She tells her story on this TV interview. So when my assignment for writing class was to write 1,000 words [...]
Sherry | December 31, 2009
Here it is New Years Eve and I’m sitting in my “spot” three feet away from my dear man, with the TV broadcasting the Times Square extravaganza. I flew in from Denver earlier today following a three-day post-Christmas celebration with the Anderson family plus one Carlson—Taylor. Ben planned to come but had car trouble and [...]